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Sony FE 50mm F2.5 G sample gallery
Published Mar 23, 2021 | dpreview staff The FE 50mm F2.5 G has the longest reach of the three lenses Sony announced today, yet it maintains the compact size and weight of the other two. This lens may also appeal to owners of Sony’s APS-C bodies, with a 75mm equiv. focal length ideal for portraits. Check out how it performs in our sample gallery. View our Sony FE 50mm F2.5 G sample gallery Gear in this story With dual processors, dual card slots and more, Nikon’s Z7 Mark II is a more capable camera than its predecessor in every...
read moreIntrepid launches new compact Enlarger on Kickstarter for 35mm and 120 film
Intrepid has announced its most compact darkroom enlarger yet. The Intrepid Enlarger has been launched on Kickstarter, where the new product has eclipsed its project goal of under $30,000 USD by more than $100,000. Intrepid writes that the Intrepid Enlarger ‘is a total rethink of the traditional darkroom enlarger. A super compact, simple and fun to use kit for making prints from your color and B&W film at home (from 35mm to 6×9), simply mount it on a tripod or copy stand!’ The company goes on to say that the new enlarger...
read moreON1 teases new custom keyboard shortcut feature coming to Photo RAW 2021.5
[embedded content] In a short video posted to its website, ON1 has teased a new feature coming to the next update to Photo RAW 2021, customizable keyboard shortcuts. In the minute-and-a-half video, Dan Harlacher from ON1 shows how you will be able to customize your own keyboard shortcuts and hot keys using the new ‘Edit Keyboard Shortcut’ dialog box coming to Photo RAW 2021 version 2021.5. As Harlacher explains in the video, setting specific keys or key combinations to perform a specific action is as simple as searching for the action you...
read morePhotography Life 2021-2022 Workshop Announcements
I am very excited to announce Photography Life’s 2021 and 2022 Workshops! Without a doubt, this past year has been pretty rough for many of us. With all the lockdowns and closures in place, it was quite hard to do anything travel-related for our team, let alone run a photography workshop! Thankfully, the situation is finally starting to improve, and with the vaccine getting more and more available for the masses, we should be getting back to normal life fairly soon. This also means we can start to think about some shooting and photography...
read moreVideo: Incredible footage of a drone flying over an erupting volcano in Iceland
[embedded content] A series of earthquakes caused the Fagradalsfjall volcano, located near Reykjavik, Iceland, to erupt for the first time in over 800 years. FPV pilot and local resident Bjorn Steinbekk took the opportunity to push his DJI FPV drone to the limits. Miraculously, the drone not only survived the extreme conditions (lava can reach temperatures up to 1,250° Celsius), he also managed to maneuver his unmanned aerial vehicle so that it dodged spurts of molten lava spewing from the crater. Steinbekk also confirmed to DPReview that the...
read moreThere’s nothing like a Pacific sunset: New Raw conversions added to our Fujifilm GFX 100S gallery
With its competitive price-tag and compact form-factor, the Fujifilm GFX 100S brings ultra high-resolution medium format imaging to the enthusiast camera market for the first time. We’ve been shooting with a final sample for a little while, and with official Raw support now available from Adobe, we’ve updated our sample gallery with several new images taken on the Washington coast. View our gallery of samples from the Fujifilm GFX 100S Gear in this story Our team at DPReview TV recently published its first impressions review of...
read moreVideo: A journey into Hawaii’s volcanic past (and present) with Mike Mezeul II and the Nikon Z7 II
Published Mar 22, 2021 | This is sponsored content, created with the support of Amazon and Nikon [embedded content] The Nikon Z7 II is a powerful enthusiast-level full-frame mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, offering 45MP resolution and a competitive feature set for both stills and video work. Weather-sealed and sporting twin card slots, the Z7 II is tough and versatile, making it ideal for work in challenging conditions. In this video, photographer Mike Mezeul II takes the Nikon Z7 II to Hawaii to explore the Big Island’s...
read moreSlideshow: Open Shortlist and Category winners for the Sony World Photography Awards
Sony World Photography Awards, in partnership with the World Photography Organisation, announced the top 130 images for their Shortlist and Open competition. Photographers from all over the world submitted standalone images to the following categories: Architecture, Creative, Landscape, Lifestyle, Motion, Natural World & Wildlife, Object, Portraiture, Street Photography, and Travel. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite picks from the Open and Shortlist categories. Photographer of the Year will be announced on April...
read moreUltra-wide and ultra-sharp: NiSi 15mm F4 ‘Sunstar’ sample gallery
The NiSi 15mm F4 ‘Sunstar’ is an all-manual ultra-wide prime lens for Canon RF, Fujifilm X, Nikon Z and Sony E mount cameras. While NiSi has been known as a filter manufacturer for quite some time; the 15mm F4 is the first lens the company has released, and it looks to be a good one. Our gallery shows that this lens is capable of outstanding sharpness across the frame, and exhibits little in the way of distortion or unwanted aberrations. It’s fairly resistant to flare, and produces its namesake 10-pointed sunstars....
read moreDPReview TV: Fujifilm X-E4 review
Published Mar 20, 2021 | dpreview staff [embedded content] In the latest episode of DPRTV, Chris and Jordan have been out and about shooting with Fujifilm’s latest APS-C format mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, the X-E4. Is it just an X100V with an interchangeable lens mount? Spoiler – not quite. Watch the video to find out why. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV every week. Sample images from this episode Gear in this story In the latest episode of DPRTV, Chris and Jordan have been out...
read moreFujifilm X-E4 Sample Gallery (DPReview TV)
Published Mar 20, 2021 | dpreview staff Fujfilm’s latest APS-C offering, the X-E4, is also the brand’s smallest interchangeable X-mount camera to date. Despite its compact dimensions, the X-E4 sports the same outstanding 26MP APS-C sensor with X-Trans color filter array as the flagship X-T4 (but without in-body stabilization). The DPRTV team has been hard at work putting this sleek little body through its paces – watch their full Fujifilm X-E4 video review for the key takeaways. And jump into the sample gallery for a true sense of...
read morePhotographer Michael Clark on Adobe Super Resolution: ‘An incredible new tool’
Photographer and friend of DPReview Michael Clark has been trying out Adobe’s new Super Resolution feature, and he’s been impressed by what it can do. In this post (originally published on Michael’s blog and reproduced here by kind permission) he goes into detail about what the new technology can do – no pun intended. On March 10, 2021 Adobe dropped its latest software updates via the Creative Cloud and among those updates is a new feature in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) called “Super Resolution.” You can mark this day down...
read moreSamyang releases RF mount versions of its VDSLR MK II cine lens lineup
Samyang, also known as Rokinon and Bower depending on your region and retailer, has announced its VDSLR MK2 cine lens series is now available for Canon RF mount camera systems. The VDSLR MK2 series was first released back in the middle of 2020 and offers manual cine lenses: a 14mm T3.1, 24mm T1.5, 35mm T1.5, 50mm T1.5 and 85mm T1.5. In addition to being sold individually, the lenses are also offered in three-lens and five-lens kits. [embedded content] Aside from slightly different dimensions to account for the decrease flange distance on the...
read moreSony 50mm F1.2 GM sample gallery (DPReview TV)
Published Mar 19, 2021 | dpreview staff In their recent review of the Sony 50mm F1.2 GM, Chris and Jordan from DPReview TV described the lens as ‘optically ideal with few compromises’. Check out the photos they shot to see if you agree with them. View the Sony 50mm F1.2 GM sample gallery Gear in this story With dual processors, dual card slots and more, Nikon’s Z7 Mark II is a more capable camera than its predecessor in every way. But we have a few remaining qualms: find out just what we make of the Z7 II. First launched in...
read moreThe absolute beginner’s guide to film photography: the ‘Sunny 16’ rule or how-to expose with no meter
Published Mar 19, 2021 | Aaron Gold No light meter? No problem. With the ‘Sunny 16’ rule you’ll never have to second-guess exposures again, even when photographing tricky scenes like sunsets. All photos: Dan Bracaglia The purpose of our Absolute beginner’s guide to film photography series is to help demystify the joys of shooting analog. And while we try not to dabble too much in specifics, there is one (sort-of) hard-and-fast analog-era rule we think every film (and digital) shooter should know: the ‘Sunny 16’...
read moreSlideshow: Winners for SkyPixel’s 2020 Aerial Storytelling Contest
Founded in 2014, SkyPixel currently boasts over six million members in its aerial photography and videography community. Partnering with DJI, the platform announced a call for entries this past December for its 6th annual Aerial Storytelling Contest. Earlier this morning, they announced the winners and finalists for their photography and videography categories. Over 26,000 submissions were received from 136 countries for categories including travel, sports, nature, architecture, and portrait. Ellis Van Jason won the video category for his FPV...
read moreThis dummy CFast 2.0 adapter lets you use MSATA SSDs in place of CFast 2.0 cards
What would happen if you were to combine a dummy camera battery and a memory card adapter? You’d get the Zitay CFast 2.0 to MSATA SSD adapter. As its less-than-original name suggests, this little gadget lets you use MSATA SSDs in lieu of CFast cards through a clever dummy CFast 2.0 card that plugs into your camera’s memory card slot. This isn’t the first of its kind, but it is a newer product that works with a wide range of cameras, thanks to its flat cable that still allows the memory card cover to be closed on most supported cameras. Zitay...
read moreCamera Rescue opens repair school in bid to fix world’s film cameras
A camera repair company in Finland is recruiting new technicians for a forthcoming training school that will teach students how to repair, preserve and create parts for discontinued film cameras. The training program will be run by CameraMakers for the Camera Rescue project, and will enroll eight people on a four month course that will show them the basics of camera servicing, testing and maintenance. Those with an ‘almost unhealthy interest in technical gadgets’ will be able to continue with an additional two year course to become a camera...
read moreLeica APO-Summicron-SL 28mm F2 ASPH lens samples
We just got our hands on Leica’s new APO-Summicron-SL 28mm F2 ASPH lens for full-frame L-mount cameras and, as you might expect, it’s an impressive piece of glass. We shot it on the Leica’s SL2 and found a lot to like, including outstanding sharpness throughout the aperture range and across the frame, great distortion control, little CA, nice sunstars and lovely out-of-focus areas. Have a look for yourself. View our Leica APO-Summicron-SL 28mm F2 ASPH lens sample gallery Gear in this story With dual processors, dual card...
read moreAll about the Kei: a 4K video from the Sony a1’s 8K capture
[embedded content] All footage shot using the Sony a1 with Sony 16-35mm F2.8 GM and Sony 50mm F1.2 GM lenses. Most shooting conducted using a DJI Ronin-S gimbal. The Sony a1 is the second 8K-capable camera to come into our studio, so we took advantage of some rare spring sunshine to put together a sample reel. All the footage in the video was recorded using the camera’s internal 10-bit 4:2:0 XAVC HS capture mode. It was all shot using the S-Log3/S-Gamut3.Cine profile, to maximize the available dynamic range on a shoot that regularly...
read morePanasonic to bring 5.9K Blackmagic Raw recording to the S1H, other features S1, S1R, S5 and BGH1 via firmware updates
Correction (March 17, 2021 at 11:29pm ET): The original headline and version of this article stated the S1 would receive Blackmagic RAW capture over HDMI. That is incorrect. Only the S1H will receive the 5.9K Blackmagic RAW capture over HDMI when used with a Blackmagic Video Assist 12G HDR. Panasonic has announced the release of new firmware updates for three of its Lumix S Series full-frame mirrorless cameras as well as its BGH1 box-style camera, bringing 5.9K Blackmagic RAW recording and more. Since each camera will be receiving slightly...
read moreChina’s Tianwen-1 probe captures incredible HD images of Mars
China’s Tianwen-1 probe has spent nearly a month orbiting Mars, and now we have stunning images from the voyage. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) released three images earlier this month, two in black and white and one in color. They’re the first high-definition images from the Tianwen-1 mission. Between CNSA and NASA, we have been spoiled with amazing Mars imagery lately. Last month, when NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on the red planet we got a glimpse at images shot with impressive new tech. Shortly after...
read moreGoPro releases a redesigned Quik app for iOS and Android
GoPro has refreshed its Quik app for iOS and Android devices. GoPro writes, ‘[Quik] makes it quick and easy to get the most out of your favorite photos and videos no matter what camera or phone you’re using. In addition to powerful editing tools, Quik simplifies keeping track of your favorite photos and videos…’ When you boot up the refreshed app, the home screen showcases a ‘Mural.’ This is a private feed of your favorite photos and videos. When you capture a photo or video you like, you can post it to your...
read moreCanon releases webcam accessory kits for some of its DSLR, mirrorless camera systems
Canon has announced it’s releasing a collection of webcam accessory start kits for select Canon DSLR and mirrorless camera systems. The kits, which are meant to be used alongside Canon’s Webcam Utility software, start at $89.99 and include a selection of adapters and cables for turning your Canon camera into a high-quality webcam. As it stands, Canon has three separate versions of its webcam kits: One for its EOS RP mirrorless camera; one for its EOS Rebel T3, T5, T6 and T7 DSLR cameras; and one for its EOS M50, M50 Mark II and M200...
read moreFirst impressions of the Sony 50mm F1.2 GM
It seems that every camera company is flexing its optical muscles these days to churn out F1.2 lenses. Sony, not one to be left behind, just released its first F1.2 prime, the FE 50mm F1.2 GM. One can’t help but ponder if Sony made this lens, at least in part, to dispel the myth that the smaller lens mount diameter – compared to its mirrorless peers – makes such fast lenses impossible (Sony claims F0.63 E-mount lenses can be made, but don’t make business sense). Either way, while the Planar T* FE 50mm F1.4 ZA optic was impressive...
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.